1 August 1981 -- First Music Video Plays on MTV
“Video Killed the Radio Star” -- The Buggles
4 August 70 -- Fall of Jerusalem
“Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem” -- Tim Rice (Lyrics) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music)
11 August 1911 -- Birth of Georgia Brown
“Sweet Georgia Brown” -- Wynton Marsalis and Mark O'Connor
12 August 1985 -- Crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123
"Ue o Muite Arukō" -- Kyu Sakamoto (Rokusuke Ei , Lyrics, and Hachidai Nakamura, Music)
12 August 1985 -- Crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123
"Ue o Muite Arukō" -- Kyu Sakamoto (Rokusuke Ei , Lyrics, and Hachidai Nakamura, Music)
13 August 1521 -- Hernán Cortés Declares Victory Over the Aztec Empire
“Cortez the Killer” -- Neil Young
13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989 -- Berlin Wall Isolates West Berlin
13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989 -- Berlin Wall Isolates West Berlin
“Right Here Right Now” -- Jesus Jones
14 August 1969 -- British Troops Deployed to Northern Ireland
“Where the Streets Have No Names” -- U2
15 August -- Starting Day of the Scarborough Fair
“Scarborough Fair/Canticle” -- Simon & Garfunkel
15 August 1771 -- 21 September 1832 -- Life and Death of Sir Walter Scott
“Ave Maria” -- Franz Schubert, Composer
15 August 1928 -- Birth of Nicolas Jack Roeg
“E=MC2” -- Big Audio Dynamite
15 -18 August 1969 -- Woodstock Music & Art Fair
“Woodstock” -- Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young (Joni Mitchell, Composer)
“Baba O’Riley” -- The Who
18 August 1962 -- First Performance of Ringo Starr as a Beatle
“Liverpool 8” -- Ringo Starr
24 August 79 -- Likely Date of Mount Vesuvius Eruption
“Pompeii” -- Bastille
28 August 1988 -- Ramstein Air Show Disaster
“Rammstein” -- Rammstein
30 August 1835 -- Founding of Melbourne
“Nostalgia” -- Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo
